The Electoral district of Subiaco was a Legislative Assembly

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in the

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. The district was named for the inner western

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suburb of Subiaco, which fell within its borders. It was normally a safe seat for the

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and its predecessors, but was won on several occasions by Labor in

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elections. Subiaco was a new seat created under the ''Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899'', which took effect at the 1901 election, where it was won by

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candidate

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. In 1903, he became leader of the eight-member Parliamentary Labor Party, succeeding

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, and in a want of confidence motion on 10 August 1904 following the 1904 election, he became

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at the head of a minority government supported by four independents. His government collapsed just over a year later, and Daglish resigned from the Labor Party. After accepting the post of Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Assembly in 1907, he joined the Ministerial faction of the party, later becoming Minister for Works. He was unexpectedly defeated by a relatively unknown Labor candidate, Bartholomew James Stubbs, at the 1911 election. Stubbs held the seat until his death in overseas combat on 26 September 1917, following which a

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candidate, Samuel Brown, won the seat at a by-election. He was defeated at the 1921 election by the National Labor candidate, Walter Richardson—the only occasion on which the party ever gained a seat it did not already hold at an election. Richardson held the seat until the 1933 election, where in circumstances not dissimilar to 1911, he lost the seat to a Labor candidate. However, it was regained three years later for the Nationalists by

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, who went on to hold the seat for 20 years. On her retirement, Labor candidate

Percival Potter Percival George Charles Potter (4 September 1906 – 17 August 1975) was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1956 to 1959, representing the seat of Subiaco. Potter was ...

won the seat at the 1956 election—a landslide for Labor—for a single term.

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held the seat until his retirement in 1971, and was followed by local GP Dr

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. The seat's final member, elected after Dadour's retirement, was

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, later to become

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. The seat was abolished at the 1989 election and its voters were divided between the new seat of

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and the existing seats of Floreat and Nedlands. While the namesake suburb was transferred to Nedlands, Lawrence transferred to Glendalough.

Members for Subiaco

Election results

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Subiaco Former electoral districts of Western Australia

Members for Subiaco

Election results

See also

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